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Openfire Increasing Java Memory Limits Debian/Ubuntu

Openfire ships with a 64Meg JVM limit which is fine for testing purposes but you may find that you are using it all up. I went round the forums a few times and found conflicting advice.

Anyhoo the instructions were close but seemed to give one massive red-herring which was they kept talking about OPENFIRE_OPTS in /etc/defaults/openfire which did not exist, add it your self and Openfire will ignore it. Where the data needs to go is in DEAMON_OPTS.

To cut a long story short you need to make /etc/defaults/openfire look like :